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De-icing Dance

Project Approved in 2024

This project aims at providing various rehabilitation and treatment program, counselling and family activity to facilitate female drug rehabilitees’ reintegration into society. Project elements include music course, art workshop, volunteer training and activity, war game activity or adventure training for drug rehabilitees, individual counselling and relapse prevention group, supportive group and aftercare activity for rehabilitated drug abusers, counselling and supportive group for family members of drug rehabilitees, family relationship enrichment activity and family outdoor activity for drug rehabilitees and their family members.

Family Link Up – Family-based Intervention for Enhancing Family Function in Supporting Hidden Drug Abusers’ Detox Journey

Project Approved in 2024

This project aims at enhancing family members’ competence in supporting hidden drug abusers through home-based intervention and family support services and counselling service. Project elements include professional training course and supervision group on case supervision for frontline staff, rehabilitation service visits for hidden drug abusers and family members, home-based case assessment, home-based individual in-depth counselling and skill enhancement, home-based family counselling, online or on-site medical consultation, and emotional treatment group for hidden drug abusers and family members, multiple family therapy groups and family reconnection activities for families with hidden drug abusers, expressive artwork exercises and interest-based experiential activities for hidden drug abusers, drug knowledge workshops and peer family counsellor training for family members, experience sharing sessions by peer family counsellors, recruitment through hotline service and instant message platforms of WhatsApp, WeChat and/or Signal, production of 4 short videos to be published on social media and production of promotion leaflets.

Monitoring Drugs of Abuse and Emerging Substances: Rapid On-site Testing and Laboratory Confirmation Analysis

Project Approved in 2024

This project aims at (i) evaluating three new generation ROFT devices for detection of the six illicit drugs specified in the drugged driving ordinance (ketamine, heroin, methamphetamine, cannabis, cocaine and MDMA); (ii) evaluating one oral fluid and two urine rapid test kits for detection of etomidate; and (iii) establishing a laboratory-based method capable of detecting emerging substances and applying this method to selected study samples.

Exercise Intervention as Treatment for People Using Cannabis (ExIT-C)—a Randomized Controlled Trial to Investigate the Effectiveness of Aerobic Exercise on Cannabis Dependence and Use Disorder

Project Approved in 2024

This project aims at (i) determining the effects of aerobic exercise in subjects with cannabis dependence on efficacy in reducing craving for cannabis and withdrawal from cannabis, efficacy in reducing cannabis dependence and the degree of severity of cannabis use disorder, changes in frequency and amount of cannabis use and self-efficacy in cannabis use reduction; (ii) determining the effects of aerobic exercise in subjects with cannabis dependence on cognitive function and cardiopulmonary capacity and determining the associations between changes in cannabis use and changes in cognitive function, cardiopulmonary capacity, and self-efficacy following short-term aerobic exercise.

Identification of Hidden Substance Users: A Data-driven Approach

Project Approved in 2024

This project aims at (i) estimating the number of hidden substance users and describing their characteristics in the community; (ii) exploring the reasons and perspectives for hidden substance use among people with substance use and the stakeholders; (iii) identifying the risk factors related to hidden substance users, including demographic, social and medical characteristics; (iv) developing a risk model to identify hidden substance users from social work networks or the healthcare system; and (v) applying and externally validating the developed prediction model for identifying hidden substance users using data from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the Hospital Authority.

Say No To Drugs, 2 Build The Sparkling Future Promotion Program 2024

Project Approved in 2023

This project aims at raising the anti-drug awareness of participants from Hong Kong Institute of Construction (HKIC), various construction sites and different ethnic minority communities. Project elements include anti-drug ambassador training workshops for ethnic minority individuals and family members of construction workers who suffered injuries, anti-drug seminars in HKIC and among various ethnic minority communities, anti-drug roving exhibitions with distribution of leaflets in various construction sites, HKIC training centre and various ethnic minority communities and business development workshops with sharing of rehabilitated drug abusers for employers in construction field.

Drugs Zero! Anti-Drugs Project VI – Soaring to Greater Heights

Project Approved in 2023

This project aims at enhancing the anti-drug attitude and resilience of local and ethnic minority secondary students through various training activities. Project elements include fitness and long distanced cycling training for students or alumni, swimming course for ethnic minority students, dance training for ethnic minority students, choir training for students, Chinese opera training for ethnic minority students, pet care training for students, endurance running competition for students, teachers, parents and general public in Lantau Island and musical show for general public.

Stand by Me: Anti-Drug Elite Adventure-based Training Program

Project Approved in 2023

This project aims at establishing a community-based network to deliver anti-drug messages through post-secondary and tertiary students who undergo two-day anti-drug adventure-based training. Project elements include two-day anti-drug adventure-based training camp for post-secondary and tertiary students and implementation of anti-drug activities in the community by post-secondary and tertiary students.

Passing on the Anti-drug Spirit of Lin Zexu Exhibition

Project Approved in 2023

This project aims at raising anti-drug awareness of general public through visiting the exhibitions that expound on the events of Lin Zexu’s historical anti-drug movement. Project elements include organising exhibitions on Lin Zexu’s historical anti-drug movement in various locations in Hong Kong.

“Wellness and Holistic Health Care。Resisting Drugs” Training Program

Project Approved in 2023

This project aims at enhancing self-esteem and resilience of young ‘freeters’ (freelance or part-time workers aged 21-35) and ‘NEET’ (people not in employment, education or training) outside school network against drugs, training young freeters, tertiary students and ethnic minority youths to be anti-drug ambassadors and providing pre-vocational training to enhance participants’ employment readiness. Project elements include workshops for young freeters and tertiary students on career life planning, specialised training in emerging sports qualifications with anti-drug elements to equip them to become “anti-drug ambassadors” and the trained ambassadors will provide subsequent anti-drug workshops and interest classes to secondary students.